As a person ages, the mind keeps thinking about new things and new objectives based upon observations and experiences. At a given point, everyone should recognize their passion and start making choices towards satisfying that passion.
Many people in this generation are making choices centered on money, which prevents them from achieving personal satisfaction at work. I used to advise my university colleagues that when choosing a course of study to not make the decision only based on the potential salary they could earn as an engineer or a medical doctor. At university, orientation into course of study depended upon your performance in high school; people with high performance in the sciences would likely join either civil engineering or medicine even if they had a different personality or ambition.
Later on, jobs become a big issue influencing fields of study. The health sector was the main sector recruiting, causing teachers to switch to studies in health related fields. They probably they would make good counselors, but I started wondering how they could define their success in life.
After reading Kaplan’s book, “What You are Really Meant to Do,” I started asking myself how I defined my own success in life. Due to an increasing capitalism mindset, which my colleagues from the Democratic Republic of the Congo call it “Monde ya benefice” meaning “world of interests,” people are more driven by wealth interests. Through observation, I found that brothers and sisters from wealthily families are more passion driven than their counterparts, and the more wealthy the family is, the more tendency to be driven by your personal passion for your career.
What do you think drives your career choices? How about within your community? Is it healthy to keep this mindset with unsatisfying choices? Two things are involved, either passion or money; if it’s passion, you are safe, if it’s money you may be in trouble!
Matching quality health care service delivery, money and passion; money and passion are listed as the most contributing factors to promote high quality healthcare service delivery. If we were all passion driven in careers, governments would not be investing in improving customer care and quality service delivery. To offer services as good as we can requires only our commitment to do so, this in turn comes from our passion to do that job.
Sometimes when I discuss with people about social justice and health equity, they tend to express their needs first saying you give what you possess, and you possess what you got; looking at this I feel the efforts we need to invest in reversing the situation. Not much money needed, not necessarily many people needed, but a well committed mindset is needed to strategize, and tomorrow or after tomorrow we will achieve. Let us gather our efforts because together everyone achieves more.
The growing trends of capitalism and poverty issues are highly pushing people’s mind to be monetary driven due mostly to the increased cost of living.
In the past few years, health equity principles were considered to be for Roman Catholic nuns and priests to implement but minds started changing little by little, and now many people know what health equity is. Once in my working experience, I faced a situation, which I still think about today, because it helped me realize my purpose on earth. You are managing medicine in a health care delivery setting and a needy patient with a severe disease comes to you with a prescription but without the money to pay. You are then confronted with a monetary driven task – to act financially but on the other hand you think about your passion and professionalism! Whoever you are and wherever you are, you will need to evaluate yourself and personally define your success in life before going ahead and deciding what to do. Dispensing the medicine versus withholding it until the patient pays.